Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Brownlow wrote: >But, just to cleanse my mind, let me say one name I love. >Robert Adams! Yeah, Cindy Sherman is an annoying twit. Her stuff has been pure shallow cliche from day one... but you're right we have to cleanse the mind: _The Americans_ is to me *the* most amazing book of pictures I have ever seen. Not one dud in the whole book, and a thematic and emotional cohesion is acheived in that book that is to me unparalleled, except perhaps by... the late Raghubir Singh's work, especially his book _Bombay_: one has to spend time with it, go back to it, think about it; incredible density and richness and complexity. There are many many others (S. Salgado, W. Allard, I. Cunningham, L. Burroughs for example), but Frank and Singh I keep going back to. Alexey Merz